Search Results - "Islamic Law and Society"

The Decline of Green-Glazed Jars after the Early Abbasid Period by Harvey, Elon

“…Abstract Green-glazed jars were manufactured in southern Iraq during the Parthian, Sasanian, and early Islamic periods. In the latter period, they were…”
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Are Cryptocurrencies ḥalāl? On the Sharia-Compliancy of Blockchain-Based Fintech by Kirchner, Irene K. F

“…Abstract The discussion of the sharia-compliancy of cryptocurrencies is shaped by the competing interests of legislators, the business and banking sector,…”
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Text Mining Islamic Law by Lange, Christian, Latif, Maksim Abdul, Çelik, Yusuf, Lyklema, A. Melle, van Kuppevelt, Dafne E, van der Zwaan, Janneke

“…Abstract Digital humanities has a venerable pedigree, stretching back to the middle of the twentieth century, but despite noteworthy pioneering contributions…”
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Al-Shāfiʿī Against the Kufan School by Melchert, Christopher

“…Abstract One of the short works of al-Shāfiʿī (d. 204/820) is Ikhtilāf ʿAlī wa-ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd ("the disagreements of ʿAlī and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd")…”
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'Where Only Women May Judge': Developing Gender-Just Islamic Laws in India's All-Female 'Sharī'ah Courts' by Jones, Justin

“…Abstract Over the last four years, India has become the centre for a major experiment in the implementation of a so-called 'gender-just Islam' by Islamic…”
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Status Distinctions and Sartorial Difference: Slavery, Sexual Ethics, and the Social Logic of Veiling in Islamic Law by Anchassi, Omar

“…Abstract This article explores how jurists articulated the distinction between free and enslaved Muslim women through sartorial norms in the formative and…”
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The Function of Documents in Islamic Court Procedure: a Multi-Dimensional Approach by Oberauer, Norbert

“…Abstract The present study investigates the role of written documents in Islamic court procedure, and especially the evidential status of such documents. For…”
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Between Implementation and Legislation: The Shiʿi Imam Muḥammad al-Jawād's Khums Demand Letter of 220 ah/835 ce by Hayes, Edmund

“…Abstract The Imami Shiʿa are usually treated as a community defined by belief. By analysing a letter attributed to the ninth Imami Imam, Muḥammad al-Jawād…”
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The Ur-Muwaṭṭaʾ and Its Recensions by El Shamsy, Ahmed

“…Abstract In this essay, I use the numerous extensive quotations from Mālik found in al-Shāfiʿī's Kitāb al-Umm to reconstruct what might be called al-Shāfiʿī's…”
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Abū Yūsuf's Ikhtilāf Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Ibn Abī Laylā and the Transmission of Knowledge in the Formative Period of the Ḥanafī School by Hanif, Sohail

“…Abstract In this essay, I address the longstanding debate on attributing legal texts to formative-period authors by focusing on the transmission of one early…”
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From Ethico-Religious Exhortation to Legal Paraenesis: Functions of Qur'anic Waʿẓ by Schmid, Nora K

“…Abstract This essay examines qur'anic "exhortation" and "legal paraenesis" in light of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry and late antique biblical traditions. It…”
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Vernacular Legalism in the Ottoman Empire: Confession, Law, and Popular Politics in the Debate over the "Religion of Abraham (millet-i Ibrāhīm)" by Shafir, Nir

“…Abstract In the seventeenth century, Ottoman jurists repeatedly tried to stop Muslims from stating that they "belonged to the religion of Abraham." A century…”
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Aḥkām concerning the ahl al-bayt by Husayn, Nebil A

“…Abstract Although Islamic law generally identifies all free Muslim males as equal members of society, irrespective of race or ancestry, a peculiar exception is…”
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Islamic Legal Reform or Re-formation? The Transmutations of Critique in Rumee Ahmed's Sharia Compliant: A User's Guide to Hacking Islamic Law by Koujah, Rami

“…Abstract To say that the issue of Islamic legal reform is on the minds of most scholars and students (Muslim or otherwise) of Islamic law is hardly an…”
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Levity Makes the Law: Islamic Legal Riddles by Keegan, Matthew L

“…Abstract This article traces the emergence of compilations of a particular kind of legal riddle in the 8th/14th century, with special reference to the…”
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Authority in the Classical Ḥanafī School: the Emergence & Evolution of Ẓāhir al-Riwāya by Younas, Salman

“…Abstract The madhhab in its classical form was an authoritative entity with substantive boundaries that established the outer limits of the school and its…”
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Destroying Churches by Performing Knowledge: Ibn al-Rifʿa's Kitāb al-nafā'is fī adillat hadm al-kanā'is (700/1301) and the Social Negotiation of Legal Authority by Van Den Bossche, Gowaart

“…Abstract In 700/1301 the Cairene scholar Najm al-Dīn Ibn al-Rifʿa wrote a short juridical treatise entitled Kitāb al-nafāʾis fī adillat hadm al-kanāʾis in…”
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Sarah Stroumsa (2019), Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain by Yarbrough, Luke B

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Jonathan E. Brockopp (2017), Muhammad's Heirs: The Rise of Muslim Scholarly Communities, 622-950 by Lucas, Scott

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The Practice of Khulʿ in Germany: Pragmatism versus Conservativism by Jaraba, Mahmoud

“…Abstract In this article, I examine how Muslim women who ae religiously-married in Germany might initiate no-fault divorce in the absence of a German…”
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